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Penguin_Rocket , to Science in How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
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It reminds me of Barbara Oakley, who wrote books about how to learn. She was terrible at mathematics, but after a career as a translator she decided to study engineering and she succeeded

aStonedSanta ,

“* BY BARBARA OAKLEY 

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    September 11, 2014”

That’s cause it is lol

Endward23 ,

What was her secret?

theywilleatthestars , to Today I Learned in TIL the word 'lox' (smoked salmon) is the oldest word in the English language- unchanged in meaning and pronunciation for 8,000 years

The most important words are the oldest

Pipoca ,

Important words undergo sound changes all the time.

For example, in Germanic languages, Proto Indoeuropean p sounds consistently morphed into f sounds. So the PIE word pods became Proto Germanic fots became English foot. pəter became fader became father. The preposition per became fur became for.

Lox is mostly unusual in that it didn't have any major sound changes affect it in Germanic languages.

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